American identity Quote by Jon M. Chu

As a child, I didn't even realize I was Chinese. I was Singaporean, but my identity was wrapped up in the culture I was…

— Kevin Kwan

I think it was hard for people to cast me as an ethnic, as an Asian American woman.

— Chloe Bennet

There was a stage when I was a little embarrassed about my Asian upbringing.

— Henry Golding

In some ways I consider myself more Chinese, because I live in San Francisco, which is becoming a predominantly Asian city. I avoid falling…

— Richard Rodriguez

There are aspects of Asian culture in my work, but it's really rooted in an American experience - transcendentalism, '60s counterculture, punk rock.

— Fred Tomaselli

Every time I do something, I think, 'Am I portraying Asian people in the way I want to be portrayed?'

— Ronny Chieng

The American society around me looked at me and saw Japanese. Then, when I was 19, I went to Japan for the first time.…

— Ruth Ozeki

In my 40s, the two cultures finally came to peace with one other inside me, and I have come to identify myself as both…

— Li Lu

I'm so proud to be an Asian and just knowing that if we think of something, we're gonna have the opportunity to be the…

— Liu Yifei

I tried my hardest to be the opposite of a stereotypical Asian student.

— Jimmy O. Yang

Growing up as an Asian American, we're lucky to have two sentences in a history book about the Chinese-American experience.

— Justin Lin

I grew up very American but also fully Asian.

— Lana Condor